Unit Code:	HIS2AWA
Alternative Unit Code:	HIS3AWA
Unit Short Title:	ANDY WARHOL'S AMERICA: POP ART, POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE
Credit Points:	20
Unit Description:	Andy Warhol's America was a world of consumerism, celebrityhood, Kennedy glamour and sexual freedom, but also of racial conflict, political assassination and death by electric chair. In the period after World War Two, the United States came to world dominance in popular culture and to the forefront of 'high art'. Artists such as Andy Warhol merged the two. Beginning with postwar prosperity and optimism, through Cold War hysteria, the growing civil rights movement, student revolt, the counterculture, opposition to the Vietnam War, Black Power and the 'death of art', we trace the connections between culture, pop art and politics.
Prerequisites:	any first-year history or art history subject
Incompatibles:	ARH2/3AWA
Class Requirements:	one 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week. For a pass in this unit students must normally attend at least 80% of the tutorials
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 2-hour examination	40
weekly tutorial exercises (1,000-words equivalent)	20
one 2,000-word essay	40	Third year students will be expected to show a greater achievement of discipline specific skills in their written work than second year students.

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Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
1   02-MAR-09   05-JUN-09	Day	BUNDOORA
1   02-MAR-09   05-JUN-09	Day	ALBURY-WODONGA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Professor	Diane	Kirkby	BUNDOORA	Y